It took three 9th Circuit judges 18 months to decide that the country's biggest-ever employment class action can proceed. Judging by the words of Wal-Mart's lawyer after the ruling, the future holds a lot more for the litigants, who say they were paid less and promoted less frequently because of their gender. Theodore Boutrous Jr. of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, who argued for Wal-Mart, said the company will seek rehearing. And if it loses again, he said, the company is prepared to go to the Supreme Court.
February 07, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
It took three 9th Circuit judges 18 months to decide that the country’s biggest-ever employment class action can move forward.
Despite the delay, when the panel finally ruled Tuesday on whether 2 million or so female Wal-Mart employees can sue the retail behemoth as a class, the judges didn’t offer any surprises: As expected, the two left-leaning judges on the panel, Harry Pregerson and Michael Daly Hawkins, upheld a San Francisco federal judge’s 2004 certification of the class.
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